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(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 1.

A. MAHON.

COMBINED CIGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

No. 348,471. I Patented Aug. 31, 1886.

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3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

A. MAHON.

COMBINED CIGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

No. 848,471. Patented Aug. 31, 1886.

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(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet A. MAHON.

COMBINED CIGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

No. 348,471. Patented Aug. 31, 1886.

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UNITE STATES A'IENT Fries-- ALEXANDER MAHON, OF XVASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONETHIRD TO LOUIS XV. SINSABAUGH, OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED CIGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,471, dated August 31, 1886.

Serial 3 0,204,868. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER Manon, of \Vashington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Cigar and Ash Holder, of

which the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part this specification.

My invention relates to that class of devices :0 to be used upon a table to hold cigars'and catch the ashes dropping from the same; and my invention consists in certain novel features hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device complete with two grooves to hold cigars, and also showing one form of fastening device. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the device with one groove; also, with a cap or covertohold cigars in the groove; also, one form of cutter. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one form of detachableholdcr, and Fig. 5 of another form. Fig. 6 shows the device applied to a billiard-table. Fig. 7 shows another form of cutter. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of an extensible holding device. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of the device with a single groove or holder. Fig. 10 shows another manner of connecting the device to a billiard-table. Fig. 11 shows a holding device rigidly connected to the cigar and ash receiver. Fig. 12 shows a device for rigidly securing the holder to the table, but which can be detached from the holder.

The cup and ash holder Ais made, by preference, in the form of the usual construction of cup ash-holders having a lower circular portion and a flaring mouth, and to which cup is attached the grooved holder B, made, by preference, in semicircular form in cross-section, as shown.

A fastening device, 0, is connected to the cup or holder portion, by means of which the device can be secured to a table or similar article. This fastening has a coiled portion adjacent to the cup and extends from thence first downward, and thence rearward and upward to near the end of the holder portion, being held up against the same by the coils at the opposite end. At this point it is curved downward, leaving a V-shaped space between it and the lower portion of the holder, by which construction itwill be readily seen that the fastening device can be made to readily yield by the action of pushing the holder upon the edge of a table and permit the holder to be slipped upon the edge thereof and clamp said edge between the holder portion and the fastening device. v

In Figs. 1, 2, and (3 two holders, 13, are shown connected to the ash-receiver, so that one holder can be used by two persons.

In Fig. 3 the holder B is shown provided with a hinged cover, which adapts the device to be used by either two persons when the cover is thrown back or to inclose the cigars to pre vent its being accidentally picked up.

\Vhere the devices are made of metal and stamped up, the flaring portionof the cup and the holder may be made at one operation and the lower portion of the cup connected thereto and have the fastening device rigidly connected therewith but where the cup and ash holder are molded of glass or similar matcrial other than metal the securing device is made detachable, as shown in Figs. 4, 5,10, and 12, the construction shown in Fig. at being for general use, while those shown in Figs. 5,

1.0, and 12are for attaching the device to ta- 8o bles, desks, or similar articles where the top or molding is made in ogcc or other similar form and only projects slightly beyond the face of the table or desk, and that shown in Fig. 5 being particularly applicable to office desks, 8 5 the arms C forming the clamp portion, and the arms 0 forming a brace to engage the face of the table.

In Fig. 11 the attaching device is shown rigidly attached to the holder and consisting of a rigid L-shaped arin, D, havinga screw, (1, at its inner end by which the device is held connected to the table by clamping the table between the holder and the arm.

In Fig. 10 the holding device is shown con- 5 sisting of arms to encircle the ash-cup and rearward]y-cxtcnding arms C, which are rigidly attached to the table by means of screws, as shown.

In Fig. 6 a section of billiard-table is shown, ICU in which the holder is shown as being sunk into the table with the aslrholder dropping below the rail; and in manufacturing tables this opening may be filled with any form of slide, to be removed when the holder is to be applied.

In Fig. 10 is shown a form ofholder adapted to be applied to billiard-tables now in use or to those where the surface is left flush. The device herein shown may be made of sheet brass or copper, the" portion of the cup being made in one or two pieces, and the flaring mouth ofthe cup and semicircular-holder made in one piece and all soldered or otherwise connected together; but for eheapness in the manufacture it has been found most desirable to form the device of glass or of a material where the entire cup and holder may be made in asingle piece.

In Figs. 2, 3, and 7 a cigar-cutter is shown in which a circular opening, E, is formed either in one side of the cup or projecting therefrom, and having a moving slide or cutting-blade, E, the operation of which will be readily understood without further description.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is 1. A cigar-smokers appliance consisting of ash well or cup, a cigar-support extending therefrom, and a fastening device, substantially as described, for connecting the same to the edge of an article, as set forth.

2. A combined cigar-holder and ash-receiver consisting of a grooved cigar-support and an ash well or cup depending therefrom, in combination with a fastening device for clamping the same to the edge 'of an article, substantially as set forth.

3. A combined cigar holder and ash-receiver consisting of a grooved cigarsupport and an ash well or cup connected to one end thercof,in combination with a spring for clamping the same to the edge of an article, substantially as set forth.

4. A combined cigar-holder and ash-rcceiver consisting of a grooved cigar-support and an ash well or cup depending therefrom, and having the cup portion provided with a cutter, to remove the ends of the cigar, and a fastening device for clamping the same to an article, substantially as set forth.

5. A holder for cigars, consisting of a cup, at well portion and a grooved portion projecting or extending therefrom, in combination with a cover hinged to the grooved portion, substantially as set forth.

ALEX. MAHON.

Vitnesses:

V. D. STOGKBRIDGE. L. \V. SINSABAUGH. 

